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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1887-04-21


COMRADES AND BEuTHEEs OF TIE l21TH ONO:
hail you and CuuEraiul YOU a. ith the Profound
est sincerity and thanks You have been med IN
fire the most terrific aud you came out bloody aud
glorious \ on charged the infuriaic and advancing
foe with unsurpassed daring and lc fled from your
plistcnuE steel Your General of division @nii Of u:
" That was glorious charge and # live u shall go
into history You stood firm rock and hurled
back the most desperate and repeated assaults,
when had you faltcrcd the proud Army Of the Cum
bcrlaud would have been overihrown. Your dis
Cipliuc saved you. The sublimity Of your courage
was conspicuous even among veterans. Thomas,
Garfield. Wood aud Iarkcr bciGtli your achieve
mcut- ith admiration and pride, and the Chief az
5000 troops, who has commanded 10 victory IN u
battles sald that the officers and men OF the l2jih
OHIO fought u magnificent manner. such good
fortune J. rarely given 10 soldiers. Numbers OF
brothers fell Eioriously the plains Of Georgia
aud grief for thcm brings tears TO our eyes Let
as swear 10y their patriotic blood and resolve now
10 finch from duty until te torn flag Of
our Nation waves IN triumph over the land and
over the sea. Your fame IS bright before thC COun-
try. Your discipline and ya'or places II there.
Resolve with your Colonel that IL shall remain
there uutHrui~hcd "a rich heritage TO CTR children
and friends. Bear your,c'vc- AT all times like true
soldiers and kindly toward each other.
Keep your arins always bright aud your powder
dry. We can consent 10 honorable death, but TO
di-honor never.
BY order of EMERSON OFpYCKE.
Colonel, 18th O. V. L.
IT,
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1887-04-21
"OPpYCKES TIGERS"
An Order Issued AMER The Battle Of Chlckamnu

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: ] have won
dCTcd sometimes why we never see anything
from the l25th Ohio in your columns. Perhaps
they are all waiting for the Others 10 speak but
they did not do that way in the army. They
never took back seat there Gen. Thomas, in
speaking Of them after the battle Of Chicka-
manga, called them "Opdycke's Tigers" The
following rccimcntal order was issued shortly
after that battle.-ALBERT MATTHEWS, Co. Il,
l25th Ohio, hiusmau, o.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1887-04-21
BENT so OUT OF SHAPE

that they could not be used again. The work
was so well done that the writer saw them at
the same place ms late as 1916, when they were
shipped of rs scrap-iTOn.
We reached Tangipahoa half an hour too
late 10 capture battery which left on a train
mp the road. Mecoud sec aud hear the train,
but HAD no means Of stopping il. Camp Moore.
situated at this station, was named in honor OF
Louisanas war Governor and used as rendez-
Nons Tor State troops and as q school for i'm
htrucnon. Alter thoroughly destroying every
thing OF military nature we turned backward
10 fontchat0ula, where an order awaited us 10
start for Port HudsOn.-WmBER II. WFnRFR.
Go. III, 9th Mich. Lampasas, Tex.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1887-04-21
The Atlanta Campaign.

W. III. Preston, Co. /, SD Ohio Myrtle avenue
and Elm street, Cincinnati, o., says he does not
claim that all of the Fourteenth Corps was at
Peach Tree Creek, but he knows that the First
Division took very active part in that spirited
engagement.
VIM. o. Rice, 10Th Wis battery, sends a brief
sketch of the fight at Allatoona under Gen.
Corse.
o. F. Lindsay, First Sergeant, Co. f, 10th
Mich, Woonsocket, OAK, referring to the fight
at Peach Tree Creek, says that the 18th Mich
and Goth Ill. crossed in the evening of July 90
and the remainder of the brigade very early
the following morning. The writer lost diary
of 1854 i'll the battle of JonesbOro, which was
found by comrade of the Goth ILL., He would
be glad to hear from him. He also lost his
diary for 1868, and if any eomrade has it he
would be greatly obliged for its return.
John Watson. Co. /, S5th ILL.,, Peoria. I'LL.
thinks the sd Ohio was the first regiment to
cross Peach Tree Creek.
&. Morehead, Co. III, 18th Ohio, Wiltshire. o.
correcting Comrade Frederick, 49th Ohio, in
regard TO the position Of the " Horn Brigade y
at Pickett's Mills. says he should have put in
the 18th Ohio instead of the 39th Ind. The
latter was mounted after the battle of Stone
River and was detached from the brigade
jules Tcissedre, Co. +, S6th ILL.,, Manteno.
ILL.,, correcting Comrade King, says il was not
Gary's battery &C.. LIST Ohio l.. Al but Can't.
Goodspeed's battery "a, 1st Ohio that was sta
toned on the hill with Newton's Division at
the battle Of Peach Tree Creek. He says it
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30

| kan wonlanhood A sTICKEEN RIVER GIRL
| takes all the beauty and grace out of them.
"The young women, however, in some
cases, are not at all bad looking. A girl be-
| comes woman at the age of II or 13 years in
| Alaska, and have seen some such girls who
were really cutie pretty. The best looking of
the young Alaskan girls are the Indians who
are found along the Stickeen river valley, or
the Haidah girls of Prince of Wales Island.
Here is picture of Julia, a Stickeen river
girl. She is dressed in a plain cotton gar
ment and she has a Turkish bath towel
wound around her head for ornament There
is ring in her nose and she has a pair of
very soft, beautiful eyes, Julia, like all In
dian girls here, dresses in long, plain
cotton under garment when at home,
and when she goes out she has gayIy col
ored blanket which she throws about her
shoulders How this blanket is worn can be
seen i'll this picture of Haidah girl. The
sketch represents girl of u or Is, and
very fair type of the prettieSt of the HaidahS
she is. These Haidah girls have relatively
fair skins, soft, dove like eyes, and they are
made on what in American society would be
called the aristocratic plan, since they have
very small, symmetrical hands and small
water can run under them without touching
the sole. They are very passionate and hot
blooded and they would be graceful were it
not for their pigeon toed gate. They are
really modest when in the presence of white
men, keep their eyes nearly always on the
ground and are forward in no way whatever
Some of them have a delicate peach bloom
blush or blood mantling upon their cheeks,
and their complexion is that of a very dark
brunette. They are like our American girls
in their love for jewelry, and wear rings
upon their fingers and in their ears, VITA
bracelets of beaten silver and copper AROUND
their wrists The Sitkan girls have many
good natured ones among their number aEd
a great many i'll tempered ones, too Like
the Haidahs and the other Alaskan Indians.
they wear night and day this long night
gown or chemise made of stout cotton drill
ing, and that constitutes their only protec-
Il N from the weather with the exception of
the blanket above mentioned
"At what age do Alaskan girls marry?"
Eat all ages, from 12 years upward. Mar
riage in Alaska is a matter of no sentiment
whatever The young men pick out the girls
whom they think would best keep house for
them, and who will do the most work for
them. One man often has several wives, and
he gets them by paying for them. After she
is married a squaw has plenty to do. She is
expected to be carrier of wood and drawer
of water. She squats upon the shore and
waits for her husband to bring in his boat
load of fish, and then it is her duty to clean |
the fish and prepare them for drying for win |
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30

must pull through as best they can, no NAV
tor how cold the weather or how deep the
snow And so it follows that now and then
some cattle perish. Still there has never yet
been destruction enough to teach people to
provide beforehand. So at the most the
climate here cannot be so very bitter
may mention that the climate of eastern
Oregon is as unlike that of seaside Oregon as
is the color of those two distinct geographical
districts, tae one being always, or nearly
always, notably humid and drippy; while
the other is as dry as a powder horn, even
the snow being dry and dust like.
This eastern Oregon is a treeleSs land.
Washington territory is wooded to the core;
but here, only few miles distant, you can set
your face to the east or south and ride 900
miles and encounter only sage bush, grouse
wood and willow; not enough wood to brolI a
quail or cook a pot of beans. But grass! A
tawny, rolling, golden sea of waving, wind
ing grass The home of the cowboy!
JOAQUIN MILLER.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30

"After a child is 2 years old an Indian
mother pays little attention to it. Whether
boy OF a girl it is dressed the same, and this
little shirt of skin or cotton is its only gar
ment. 1t plays>if it be girl with the other
little girls of the village just as ours do. If il
is a boy it runs up and down the beach with
others of its kind and has many rude play.
things Girls here have doll babies, too, and
Alaskan dolls are among the curiosities of the
country. The Eskimo, of Behring sea, make
dolls out of the ivory of walrus tooth, and
dress them in imitation of their own cos
tunes. The father generally, or mother
sometimes, carveS out this doll, and the
child dresses it and puts its clothes off and on
many times day. The little Indian girls
doll is rudely made of stick, without assist
ance usually from its parents. They manu-
facture them, however, as soon as they are
old enough, putting in couple of beads for
eyes and dressing them in a few tattered
strips of cotton cloth and strings of beads"
"Are there any henpecked husbands in
Alaska?"
II don't know exactly about that, but the
women do have great deal of influence over
their husbands in some cases. They are adj
vised with in the Indian councils, and as to
superiority, it is often a matter of brute
strength. If the woman is stronger than the
man she often makes him come to time, and
in such case the husband is the laughing
stock of the community. If she is the weaker
he beats her and makes her do his bidding,
The woman always goes with the man when
he does his trading, and he takes her advice
as to his purchases. 1t will be a strange thing
if she does not see that piece of bright rib
bon or cheap jewelry is among these, and if
she is young and pretty she will probably
get what she wants.
"The Aleutes use little cast iron stoves in
their houses, and they have beds or hunks in
them with gaudily printed spreads One of
these beds, stove and two or three cracker
boxes for chairs, constitute large part of the
household furniture. They use cups and
saucers, and the family is fortunate which
has dozen pewter spoons. Some of the
Aleutes are now using coal oil, and upon the
walls of their huts they paste all sorts of
craps of pictures cut from papers and else
where. The Aleute husband is kinder than
he average Alaskan. He sleeps most of the
time when he is at home, and he doesn't ask
is wife to do very much which he would not
10 himself"
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30
THE ALASKAN WOMEN.
4 TALK WITH HENRY w. ELLIOTT,
THE NORTHERN EXPLORER.
Pretty Girls and Ugly WOmen-HoW
Alaskan Ladies Look, Act and Talk.
Marriage in AIasks-The Babies Dolls
and How They Are Dressed.
Special Correspondence
WAsH1NcroN An,

WASHINGTON, April IS.
Probably the best individual authority on
Alaska IN tho United States is Henry W.
! Elliott, of the Smithsonian institution. whose
book, entitled "Our Arctic Province" is now
upOn the book counters of this country and
RsglaAd. MIR. Elliott was first sent to Alaska
in connection with company which proposed
laying telegraph line across Behring straits
| and down into Asia he was afterward
stationed there for a number of years in the
employ OF the government, and during this
! time he naac study of the people, explored
great part of the country and made graphic
sketches of everything he saw. He is an
artist of no ordinary ability, and his new
book, which is published by Scribner 81 Co.,
is packed full of sketches and engravings
made from drawings which were taken Oh
the ground The volume contains 466 pages,
and am safe in saying that there is not an
uninteresting paragraph within its covers. 1t
will probably constiszte for many years to
come the chief authority upon Alaskan mat
tiers. Elliott is a slender, rosy faced, blue
eyed man of about 40 years. He has little fat
upon his bones, and his whole anatomy is
filled to the highest degree with nervous
energy. He moves about in quick, jerky
way, talks rapidly and well, and when lost for
an illustration, which is very seldom, for he
is man of much literary attainment, he
takes his pencil and sketches out his idea be-
fore your eyes.
He is a man of some means and has large
grapery on one of the Lake Erie islands near
Cleveland, where he spends his summers and
from which he sells tons of grapes every year.
His winters he spends at Washington, as an
associate and collaboration of the Smithsonian
institution, which gives him studio within
its building, and uses as much of his artiStfc
services as it can afford to pay for. 1 called
upon him in his studio yesterday and had a
chat with him about Alaska. A part of the
conversation turned upon Alaskan women,
and Mr. Elliott showed me number of
sketches Of Alaskan girls which he had drawn
from nature and which are published in this
letter for the first time.
According to Mr. Elliott the Only GOOD
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30

CHOW do the Alaskan women amuse them
Selves?"
"They have not much time for amusement,
but they spend the most of their leisure is Cos
siping, and the tongue of an Alaskan woman
can go as fast as that of her American sister.
Indian Squaws sit down upon their feet
around 'rancherie' fire, and smoke and
gossip for hours and hours. They retail all
the scandal Of the village, discuss their neigh
bors over and over, and some of them have
sharp tongues. They are no respecters of
character, and their gossip is often decidedly
c',~oC,,n FPANK q CAPpr,-rrp
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30
Emperor Williams Luck.

The St James Gazette tells that horse
trotting through the Leipzig strasse, Berlin,
the other day, cast one of his hind shoes, the
speed at which he was going communicating
sufficient impetus to it to send it crashing
through shop window some yards off. AT
some little distance inside the pane stood
statue of the emperor, which had been placed
there on the occasion of the recent fete, and
the shoe fell exactly at the foot of the statue.
The lucky omen, as they regard it, is said to
have impressed the Berlinese almost as pro-
foundry, though of course in different way,
as the eclipse of the sun which preceded
Caesars death did the Romans. YORK
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30

dom washes her clothing, and never her hus-
bands The latter is obliged to wash his own
shirts. As a rule. her clothes and her chill
dren's are always dirty, and as for dishes,
anything is clean enough for an Indian to eat
from. The creole women of Alaska are diff
ferent in this respect They live much bet
ter, and are, in fact, the highest type of
Alaska women. They live in little cottages
of their own, scrub their floors, and many of
them have cook stoves Like the oCher
Alaskans, however, they are not strikingly
beautiful, and this picture here represents an
Aleutian mother with her child, attired in the
dress which it is accustomed to wear winter
and SUMNER
Tell me something about the Alaskan
babies"
"They are much the same as our babies, "
replied Mr.. Elliott, "but they don't have half
the advantages. l have never seen their
mothers waste very much affection upon
them, and they are allowed'to run about and
fight the battle of life in their own way. The
Indian babies are wrapped up and tied to a
papoose board for a cradle. while the Es-
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30

Crystal Palace ten years ago. She then took
a thorough course of instruction under Signor
Sangiovanni, of Milan, and made her debut
in LA Traviata" at Brescia, Italy. She has
since sung the leading roles in such operas as
"Mefistofele," "La Gioconda" and Hamlet, +"
winning great applause. Mr.. Mapleson en-
gagged her in 1888 and she has been with him
ever since. She has true soprano voice of
excellent quality.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30
lg to MIR. Elliott the only GOOD

.
looking women in
Alaska are the
young ones. Said
he: "The Indian
women of Alaska
are not as a rule
beautiful. The
old women are
simply horrible.
They have wrink-
led faces, broad,
bent backs, coarse
features and dis
gushing manners. "
Modesty and viz
tue have departed
from them, and a
few years of Alas
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30
1t Is a Curious Fact

That the body is now more susceptible to
benefit from medicine than at any other
season. Hence the importance of taking
Hoods Sarsaparilla now, when it will dc
you the most good. 1t is really wonderful
Tor purifying and enriching the blood
creating an appetite, and giving healthy
tone to the whole system. Be sure to get
Hoods Sarsaparilla, which is peculiar to
itself.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30

lowing the tradi-
tons of opera, after
completing a course
of study at Milan,
she Italianized it to
Nine. Lillian Nordi-
ca. She is a native
of Farmin gton,
Mass, and her
m othe r was a
daughter of the
noted revivalist
Camp Meeting
John Allen" After
studying at Boston
she went to London
with Patrick Gil
more's any
o,,I eon~ ~ &ho
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30
A New Prima Donna.

We present herewith a portrait of an
American prima donna who has made nota-
de success in various roles in Paris, Moscow
and st. Petersburg, and is now one Of the
leading ladies of Col. Mapleson's Royal Ital-
ian Opera company in London. Lillian Nor
ton Cover is her baptismal name, but fol-
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30

ter Use. She cuts
wood, sews her
C h ildr e MS gar
ments, picks and
dries berries and
lays in a stock of
bark and other saw
age deSiderata for
the winter.
III ow e yer, she
doesn't have to dc
many things that
an Am erican
woman does. If
she is an Indian.
she has no sweep
ing to do, and no
washing. She sell
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30
NOTICE.
Goods Held for Storaye.

Barratt Bros. will continue their "cost
Tor cash" sales of furniture this week
with auction sales in the north half of
our house on Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday next, when the goods held for
storage will be Sold BARRAT BROS.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30

we are now prepared TO do the
.i jon work i'm this part of
INC country. Democrat Office.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30
Mark McKimmins, Livery Stable

Nam Street, north of Walker House.
A first class, fully equipped establish
ment in every particular.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30
JOAQUIN MILLER.
HE WRITES FROM THE DALlES OF
THE OREGON SlERRAS.

The Most Sublime Scenery in All the
WOrld-A CHASTITY "Reminiscences of the
Old Days-A Cry and a FalI-Days When
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30

A strong effort, I see, is now being made to
have the Hanlan-Gaudaur race occur at
either Nantasket Beach or Point of Pines.
The place which offers the greater induce
ments to the oarsmen in the way of excursion
money, etc, will get it. OcTY COHEN.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-28
THREE CYCLONES.
PARTS OF SOUTHWESTERN STATES
WRECKED.

over 10 Lives Lost-Immense Destruction
OF Property - Great Number of
Houses Torn Iuto Splintcrs.
A terrific cyclone swept over the northern
part of Vernon county, Missouri, on the
night Of the eel. So far as can be learned,
the first place it touched was at Metz town
ship, passing through Me'z, Usage and Blue
Mountain townships. Fences houses, barns
and everything in tho line of the storm,
which was about half q mile wide, were
picked up rent into splinters and cast down
hundreds of yards away. Trees were torn
up by the roots, and over 80 houses destroyed.
About Is persons were killed.
A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark, April
%, says: A tornado originating in the Indian
territory, and moving almost due east, passed
through tho country four miles north and
along the line OF the Little Kock and Fort
Smith railroad. 1t was between quarter
and half mile wide and near Ozark, Frank
lin county, began doing great damage &c
trees, houses and fences. Farther east, neal
Coal Hill and Clarksyille, Johnson county,
the damage was very series and many per-
sons were injured
An Ozark special says: A heavy wind
approached from several sections, and the
canyon east of the town, about the head OF
which the funnel appearance of the cyclone
was first seen. A track 800 yards wide wa:
laid almost bare, Timber and all sorts OF
improvements were blown in every direc-
ton,
The general damage was done to out
buildings, fencing, blooming orchards out
side of the immediate track of the cyclone
while inside everything was nearly tota
wreck.
A tornado swept through q portion Of
Kentucky. south of Cincinnati on the 22nd
At Paris, while vio.ent rainstorm, will
thunder and lightning, was in progress, 0
continuous rumbling sound was heard
which proved to be tornado. IL passed
in few minutes leaving track 400 yard
wide, in which trees wero levelled and
houses unroofed. The steeple of the Baptis
Church was left leaning in a dangerous CON
dition, and the heavy roof Of the Paris tioui
mills was badly wrecked
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-28
TROUBLESOME KlOWAS.
indians Pursued 10 n stronghold
Finally Surrender.

indians Pursued 10 Stronghold
Finally Surrender.
Advices from Anadarko Indian agency are
to the effect that there has been great excite
ment there, owing to the action of the Kio'
was. War talk began over week ago, but
Quanoh Parker, chief of the Comanches, not
only held his own tribe in check, but in
fluenced the better element of the Kiowas.
Few of the tribe would listen to him, and,
with their war talk, began depredations on
the cattlemen. A band Of them roamei
over the cattle country, visiting resi-.
dences, and greatly frightening the
women and children. They made
such demonstrations about the school
at Anadarko as to terrorize the
children. The military were notified, and
Capt. Hall determined to withhold beef IA
tions from the Kiowas that had caused
trouble; but then more OF the leaders came
in and it was determined to arrest
them. This becoming known, the Kiowas
became alarmed, and leaving their traps
wagons, etc, took their women and children
and all their ponies to a stronghold on the
Rainy mountain 40 miles from Anadarko.
Troops were at once sent in pursuit. and
went into camp on the Wichita, eight miles
from the Indians position. They advanced
to the bass of the mountain on the following
night. After three days parley the indians
agreed to give up the Offenders to the soldiers
located near the fort, where they could he
watched. The troops returned TO Anadarlsc
with the prisoners.